Festival of Young Playwrights

Welcome to
Interplay Europe – Festival of Young Playwrights

Interplay is an international, not-for-profit arts and network organization for the furtherance of young playwrights aged 18 to 26. It was founded in Sydney in 1985. Until 2010 every two years Interplay organises the largest and most prestigious festival of its kind, World Interplay, at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia and – since 1995 in different cities – Interplay Europe Festivals.

Henning Fangauf, Chairperson of Interplay

In 1998 Interplay Europe e.V. was founded in Berlin as a European network organisation. Its office is in Frankfurt am Main (Chairperson: Henning Fangauf).

Participants from all over Europe are discussing every two years their plays for several inspiring, practical and creative days of classes, workshops, forums and events with experienced international tutors. Through workshops and small scale productions they have the opportunity to improve their work. Interplay Europe also supports international youth exchange and seeks to contribute to better understanding between nations.

The Aims of Interplay

Interplay Europe Festivals are held in various parts of Europe in order to:

celebrate the creative richness of young playwrights

provide an international meeting place where their work can be discussed, workshopped and performed

provide an international forum for the ideas of young playwrights

offer the general public access to the works of young writers

contribute to regional, national and international cultural development.

Interplay Europe looks for new, high quality work, in which a talent for writing for the stage is clearly evident. Interplay Europe aims to encourage and help writers whose goal is to write for the professional stage.